CHS Bartering Bonanza

Entrepreneurial Unit - An Academic-Service Learning Project

Day 1 - Explain CHS Bartering Bonanza, students get partners and discuss different products. Show powerpoint of last year!

Guest speakers about Clare County - Research about Clare County on the Internet

Day 2 - What is an Entrepreneur?

  • Read about entrepreneurs
  • Groups - fill out characteristics of what they think an entrepreneur is.
  • Take the quiz "Are you an entrepreneur?"
  • Do the tower structure with marshmellow

Day 3 - Forms of business

  • Forms of business ownership - read web site
  • Show PowerPoint and students take notes
  • Show the chocolate
  • Read the scenarios and have students decide what is the best business structure.
  • Watch video of Red Paperclip Man

Day 4 – Inventors

  • Do those brain teasers.
  • Read web site
  • Read Slinky Story to class
  • Complete worksheet
  • Group work - find a common item and the group needs to come up with different uses for the object.
  • Hand out choice of product sheet, show wish list to kids.
  • Watch the red paper clip video

Day 5 - Intellectual Property

  • Discuss items
    • Trademarks & Activity Sheet
    • Industrial Design
    • Copyrights
    • Patents
    • Prototypes
  • Design their logo

Check out different web sites.

  • With their partner create a mission statement for their business.
  • Discuss what to make

Create a Mission Statement as a individual

Day 6 - Decision Making

  • Finalize decision on product
  • Have a Decision Product Grid

Day 7 - Ethics

  • Read Ethics web page
  • Activity: As a groups of 4 or 5 - give them the Making Informed Ethical Decisions Worksheet
  • Individual Groups: Create their own Code of Ethics

Day 8 - Marketing Mix

  • Intro Activity
  • Read Web page
  • Take any item (mcdonald toy) & promote it.
  • Marketing Worksheet
  • Beach Ball Marketing activity
  • Play Lemonade Stand Game or Virtual Business

Day 9 - Competition

Day 10 - Price
  • Discuss price
  • Do the pizza activity- bring in pizzas and talk about the prices and markup. Have the students look up prices of the pizza online. Once they are completed, they can eat the pizza.
  • Net Grocer
  • Have them read the Prices Web page and give them the Lemonade stand worksheet

Day 11 - Advertising

  • Advertisements - decide on your booth
  • Create the advertising products

Day 12 - work day

  • Vocab Test

Day 13 - work day

  • Set up gym for Bonanza tomorrow.

Day 14 - November 25, 2007

  • Document all sales, use boxes to keep items organized

Day 15 - November 26, 2007 - The CHS Bartering Bonanza

Day 16 - November 26, 2007